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Author Scott.Leerssen
Recipients Scott.Leerssen, lars.gustaebel, orsenthil, pitrou, python-dev, santoso.wijaya, srid
Date 2011-05-13.16:34:54
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It turns out that my fix was at least one byte short of complete.  If the target pathname is a broken symlink, os.path.exists() returns False, and the OSError is raised.  I should have used os.path.lexists().  Also, I believe the same problem exists for the hardlink case a few lines below.
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2011-05-13 16:34:55Scott.Leerssensetrecipients: + Scott.Leerssen, lars.gustaebel, orsenthil, pitrou, srid, santoso.wijaya, python-dev
2011-05-13 16:34:55Scott.Leerssensetmessageid: <[email protected]>
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